Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

Travel back nearly 4,000 years and bring history to life with a rich, savory lamb stew based on a recipe from ancient Mesopotamia. Recreated from cuneiform tablets, this dish blends timeless ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

(The city-state of Ur emerged as an important center of commerce and Sumerian culture circa 2700 b.c ... during looting there in April. Numerous cuneiform tablets relate tales, such as that ...

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for leisurely games.

and Mesopotamia. Beginning as early as the 3rd millennium BC and throughout its subsequent history, it was under the political control of kingdoms in one or another of these regions according to ...

It explores ancient prediction and forecasting methods such as extispicy (the examining of animal entrails; a practice that dates to 3000 BCE Mesopotamia ... s ancestors. Cuneiform text on ...

It feels like a mashup of old Aspen hippie culture and today’s 2020s-style ... of our ancestors honored with ceremony and awe. The Sumerians — living in what is now modern-day Iraq — held ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed ... of a vast flood in ancient Mesopotamia, complete with a ...